Carpe Amorem

Un dia me propuse hacer algo, preparar un poemario con todas las poesias que tenia guardadas desde mucho tiempo atras. Dejar un recuerdo postumo para que mis hijas pudieran disfrutar en el futuro cuando pudieran leer este poemario. Desde que estaba en la escuela Intermedia Isabel Suarez de mi pueblo de Anasco siempre escribia poemas de diferentes generos que gustaron mucho entre mis amigos de estudio para aquel tiempo. Despues de tener varios poemas ya escritos me decidi a preparar un poemario donde incluyera mas poesias. Para entonces comence con una poesia que gusto mucho la cual titule...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of...

"Yo no escribo con el corazón porque mi corazón escribe con faltas de ortografía" Enrique Bolaños C. "Hay letras que escupen vileza, palabras viperinas que buscan envenenar las cabezas. Hay letras que esculpen belleza, técnicas matemáticas dominadas por los estetas. Hay letras que imponen razones, dogmas disecados en mentes de dictadores. Hay letras que transpiran humanidad, como las de Enrique Bolaños que, con su poesía vivaz, desnuda con destreza a la cotidiana realidad." Mikel del Ferro autor de las Crónicas de Durem y coautor de El Noble Arte de la Blasfemia.

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...